Devi Swain Lenz, Assistant Research Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology  

Devi Swain Lenz

Devjanee (Devi) Swain Lenz, PhD, is the Director of the Duke Sequencing and Genomics Technologies Core Facility (SGT) and has over 15 years of experimental and computational experience in genomics research. She earned her PhD in Molecular Genetics and Genomics at Washington University in St. Louis and completed her postdoctoral research at Duke University. Her research interests focus on understanding how cis-regulatory variation contributes to phenotypic differences between and within species. She has also held multiple leadership roles for nonprofit organizations whose emphasis is on increasing and maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM-related fields. 

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Education:
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2013

Office Location: 4113 French Science Center
Email Address: devjanee.swain.lenz@duke.edu

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Edsall, LE; Berrio, A; Majoros, WH; Swain-Lenz, D; Morrow, S; Shibata, Y; Safi, A; Wray, GA; Crawford, GE; Allen, AS, Evaluating Chromatin Accessibility Differences Across Multiple Primate Species Using a Joint Modeling Approach., Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 11 no. 10 (October, 2019), pp. 3035-3053 [doi]  [abs].
  2. Swain-Lenz, D; Berrio, A; Safi, A; Crawford, GE; Wray, GA, Comparative Analyses of Chromatin Landscape in White Adipose Tissue Suggest Humans May Have Less Beigeing Potential than Other Primates., Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 11 no. 7 (July, 2019), pp. 1997-2008 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Swain-Lenz, D; Berrio, A; Safi, A; Crawford, G; Wray, G, Comparative analyses of chromatin landscape in white adipose tissue suggest humans may have less beigeing potential than other primates (2019) [doi]  [abs].
  4. Staller, MV; Holehouse, AS; Swain-Lenz, D; Das, RK; Pappu, RV; Cohen, BA, A High-Throughput Mutational Scan of an Intrinsically Disordered Acidic Transcriptional Activation Domain., Cell Systems, vol. 6 no. 4 (April, 2018), pp. 444-455.e6 [doi]  [abs].
  5. Swain-Lenz, D; Nikolskiy, I; Cheng, J; Sudarsanam, P; Nayler, D; Staller, MV; Cohen, BA, Causal Genetic Variation Underlying Metabolome Differences., Genetics, vol. 206 no. 4 (August, 2017), pp. 2199-2206 [doi]  [abs].